Sarika Velaga

• Engage with key stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage all internal leadership communications, and facilitate & document CAB meetings.
• Developed and deployed training and enablement materials aligned with change objectives, ensuring readiness across impacted teams and facilitating seamless transitions.
• Led cross-functional content and communications teams in the creation and delivery of change-related materials.
• Collaborated with CMO leads and business SMEs to develop and execute communication plans; managed content reviews, sign-offs, and reporting to CMO and PMO leads to ensure alignment and timely delivery of communications.

• Delivered 40+ hours of targeted training sessions, focusing on high-level process changes.
• Developed customized training materials to support change initiatives, ensuring clear communication of new processes and effective knowledge transfer to impacted users.
• Collaborated with external stakeholders to research, validate, and integrate insights across workstreams for developing Change Impact Assessments and Training Needs Analyses.
• Interpreted technical documentation (e.g., RTMs, fit-gap analyses, and workshop outputs) to identify current vs. future state changes, assess business impacts, and propose mitigation strategies.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to validate content, align on training priorities, and ensure readiness through well-informed Change Impact and Training Needs outputs.
• Facilitated stakeholder engagement through regular client calls, providing updates, gathering feedback, and securing alignment and sign-off on key OCM deliverables.

• Led a compliance team responsible for ensuring accurate and timely reporting, maintaining adherence to regulatory and organizational standards.
• Contributed to high-impact, large-scale projects by managing change-related activities such as stakeholder training, communication planning, and end-user enablement.
• Conducted comprehensive Change Impact Analyses (CIA) across five Australian universities, identifying change risks, business impacts, and user readiness needs.
• Defined and implemented the communication strategy for a major change initiative, including stakeholder segmentation, messaging frameworks, communication channels, key milestones, and review timelines.
• Developed and delivered over 50 Job Aids, 50 Quick Reference Guides, 10 User Guides, 16 Newsletters, and multiple communication assets to support change adoption and compliance.

•Conducted TNA and TNI to design effective learning programs.

•Facilitated new hire induction and training.

•Led strategic workforce planning and talent management to meet clinic

objectives.

•Designed and delivered training modules on verbal and life skills for students at colleges and universities across India.

•Facilitated and conducted workshops for over 10,000 unemployed youth on confidence building, English Language and Communication skills via PMKVY.

•Delivered trainings to audience of 1000+ at conferences run by Brigham Young University (CE), USA.

•Facilitated interview preparation workshops in Delhi for underprivileged youth.

•Delivered comprehensive training in computer education, public speaking, and communication skills to children of employees at Governor Bhavan.